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26 February 2011
Last updated at 09:50 ET
The final rescue flight on which British people can escape from Libya has touched down at Tripoli airport.
The government-chartered Boeing 737 has 148 seats - there are thought to be about 50 Britons still in the city.
It is not certain how long the plane will be able to remain at the airport.
Foreign Secretary William Hague had earlier urged all Britons in Tripoli to go to the airport. Efforts are also continuing to rescue 200-300 British oil workers in remote locations.
A further 70 Britons arrived in Malta in the early hours of Saturday after being taken out of Libya by sea on HMS Cumberland.
They endured a 35-hour journey from the Libyan port of Benghazi on rough seas.
They were among a total of 207 people evacuated from the port by the British naval ship which Mr Hague said would return to Benghazi on Sunday to pick any others wishing to leave. A second warship, HMS York, is also being sent.
BBC Europe Editor, Gavin Hewitt, who is in Malta, said many were exhausted and weary and told of harrowing experiences reaching the safety of the vessel. Other Britons had arrived aboard a catamaran that had been at sea for two days.
Our correspondent said that the focus now was on the remaining oil workers stranded in remote and vulnerable locations.
He said: "These are very complicated operations. People are spread out over a wide area. The focus is on trying to evacuate them or extract them over the weekend."
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The government-chartered Boeing 737 has 148 seats - there are thought to be about 50 Britons still in the city.
It is not certain how long the plane will be able to remain at the airport.
Foreign Secretary William Hague had earlier urged all Britons in Tripoli to go to the airport. Efforts are also continuing to rescue 200-300 British oil workers in remote locations.
A further 70 Britons arrived in Malta in the early hours of Saturday after being taken out of Libya by sea on HMS Cumberland.
They endured a 35-hour journey from the Libyan port of Benghazi on rough seas.
They were among a total of 207 people evacuated from the port by the British naval ship which Mr Hague said would return to Benghazi on Sunday to pick any others wishing to leave. A second warship, HMS York, is also being sent.
BBC Europe Editor, Gavin Hewitt, who is in Malta, said many were exhausted and weary and told of harrowing experiences reaching the safety of the vessel. Other Britons had arrived aboard a catamaran that had been at sea for two days.
Our correspondent said that the focus now was on the remaining oil workers stranded in remote and vulnerable locations.
He said: "These are very complicated operations. People are spread out over a wide area. The focus is on trying to evacuate them or extract them over the weekend."
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